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Games / Re: Games I want to save for.

« on: August 08, 2010, 10:27:04 PM »

How is it really weird?  You only didn't like the lack of headshots and D&D style injuries and such, I find that to be a really cool combat system in a world full of being shot in the face and waiting for the blood to jump off of your face.

For one thing, in non-vats combat you had to use a TON of ammo to kill anything more powerful than a raider. Super mutants take forever and a lot of ammo to kill, Enclave soldiers, etc. This wouldn't be a problem if you had access to an abundance of ammo, but this isn't the case. In VATS you never did enough damage on any of the stronger stuff to make it worth using, that is, of course, unless to take the "run up to a super mutant with a combat shotgun and aim for the head" approach, but at that point you're really using VATS as a semi-cheat.

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Games / Re: Games I want to save for.

« on: August 08, 2010, 10:21:38 PM »

You don't even know what an RPG game is.  FO3 is an action RPG, it's still role playing.  My understanding is that you're expecting an FPS game being spoon-fed to you, then you get a new combat system so you cry.

Stop using that, I don't expect anything spoon fed to me.

I really think that you're not understanding what I'm saying. I wouldn't care what Bethesda did, they could've made it completely an RPG and have some kind of turn based combat in 3D or they could've made the combat completely FPS based BUT they tried to do both and elements of each leaked into each other and it ended up feeling really loving weird.

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Games / Re: Games I want to save for.

« on: August 08, 2010, 10:15:26 PM »

It's an RPG game, it's not a normal FPS.  Get used to it.  You aren't just going to be spoon-fed.

If they wanted it to be an RPG game, then they should've found some way to make VATS not suck, like force enemies to use some kind of similar combat interface or do a real turn based combat system like the first two but in 3D or some stuff like that and have no FPS option. My problem is is that because it had guns they figured they needed to have some kind FPS in it but they said "hey this is an RPG and the last two games were turn based so let's make some half assed semi-turn based combat option but also coddle FPS gamers kind of". It got caught in the middle and had SO MUCH combat that the whole thing ended up feeling clunky and weird.

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Games / Re: Games I want to save for.

« on: August 08, 2010, 10:11:16 PM »

Once again, I'm just tired of every single FPS using sights.  I would rather have one game or two having sights instead of every single one.  For your VATS issue: Then don't loving use it.

Oh man, would I love to use the regular FPS system in Fallout 3, but oh wait, it's broken. Boy, wouldn't it have been nice if I explained why it's broken?

Seriously, Fallout 3 would've been so much better I didn't go up to someone, point a pistol at their head, fire, have it say "xxxxx head crippled" but still have around 90% health. It makes no loving sense and it seems like they tried to rip it out of a D&D esque "roll for your hit chance, roll for your damage, roll for their defense, roll for their evade, etc." system.

Oh wait, I did.

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Games / Re: Games I want to save for.

« on: August 08, 2010, 10:07:31 PM »

I'm just tired of every single loving fps including sights.  It's all the same now.  And VATS was for people who still wanted the RPG style system.  I find it very entertaining too.  

So you're pissed that the norm is now realism over crosshairs?

VATS is cool simply because of the slow motion stuff but honestly, it's a cheap way to do combat, makes no sense in the context of Fallout 3 (over Fallout 1 & 2), and gets old fast.

Tell me, how would you rather FPS games did aiming?

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Games / Re: Games I want to save for.

« on: August 08, 2010, 10:02:58 PM »

Did they add sights?!  What the forget were they thinking?!  I'm tired of sights in every single loving game now.  VATS seems much better than stuffty sights.

"hurr I'm going to have the only alternative to a broken FPS-esque combat system be an even more broken RPG combat system that we tried to rip out of a turn based combat system even though your enemies are just shooting at you but that's impossible for you to do hurr".

I love VATS though, nothing's cooler than seeing your rifle bullet go slo-mo into a ghoul's skull.

Oh and they kept VATS, I remember reading about it somewhere.

Yeah the slow-mo stuff is cool but read my above criticism. Seriously, Fallout 3 would've been so much better I didn't go up to someone, point a pistol at their head, fire, have it say "xxxxx head crippled" but still have around 90% health. It makes no loving sense and it seems like they tried to rip it out of a D&D esque "roll for your hit chance, roll for your damage, roll for their defense, roll for their evade, etc." system.

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Games / Re: Games I want to save for.

« on: August 08, 2010, 09:59:37 PM »

I dunno, the models and textures just look lower quality to me.

I don't really like the idea of aiming down the sights either, it just didn't seem to work well in the gameplay footage.

Honestly I'd rather have better FPS mechanics and no VATS with some stuffty ironsights than F3's combat.

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Off Topic / Re: My New Video Card Comes In Tomorrow

« on: August 08, 2010, 09:58:50 PM »

Sirrus, you suck at processors.  It's a pretty good processor.  He should be able to run most things at good settings.

What's wrong with what I'm saying? A 2.93 dual is probably one or two generations back in processors. It's probably a Pentium.

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Games / Re: Games I want to save for.

« on: August 08, 2010, 09:55:46 PM »

The Fallout 3 main story is quite short, yes, but in between actual story quests you get so caught up in other stuff happening in the Fallout world that the story seems really long, lol.

Oh yeah and I heard GTA4 gets boring after awhile, and that the online is practically dead.

And is it me or do the F:NV graphics in the trailers look worse than F3's graphics?

Yeah, in my first file I played for like ten hours before I even tried getting to GNR.

Also, as for the graphics, it looks on par with F3. I doubt they did much updating the engine. It also, from looking at the trailer, looks like they did away with VATS. Cool.

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Off Topic / Re: My New Video Card Comes In Tomorrow

« on: August 08, 2010, 09:37:48 PM »

My friend has a 8800GTS over clocked with a dual core processor and he can run games on max settings without lag. Btw most games can only read 3 cores anyways.

Regardless of how many cores you have, 2.93 is still a fairly low clock rate and is probably an older processor. I have a Phenom II X3 @ 3.2GHz.

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Off Topic / Re: My New Video Card Comes In Tomorrow

« on: August 08, 2010, 09:31:23 PM »

Why would you get such a lovey GPU with such a stuffty processor?

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Games / Re: Games I want to save for.

« on: August 08, 2010, 09:27:34 PM »

If F:NV is twice as goos as F:3, it will still be boring. I've had it sitting on top of my TV for almost 2 years, still have never beaten it. I install it from time to time, only to get bored of it ~5 hours in. I forget about it for a while, then finally get around to un-installing it.

Just my two cents.

Holy stuff man, how long does it take you to do stuff? I think I could beat Fallout 3 in two hours if I went right from Vault 101 to 112. Expand for spoilers, but the actual progression of the Fallout 3 story is pretty damn short, IMO.
As soon as you leave 101, if you swing around go to 112 and pick up your dad then you can go from 112 to Project Purity. After the Enclave raids it and kills your dad, you end up at the citadel. From there you go to Vault 87, get the GECK, get raided by the Enclave, end up at the Raven Rock, go back to the Citadel and storm project purity. game over. Most of your time is locked up in travelling, vault 87, and raven rock. Combat might also be difficult at low levels.

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Games / Re: Games I want to save for.

« on: August 08, 2010, 09:04:50 PM »

Good. I'm kind of surprised that more people said Fallout, then. I have played Fallout 3, though, and I love it. <3

Honestly if FNV is half as good as Fallout 3 it'll still be an extraordinary game.

If it's exactly the same as Fallout 3 (with a new setting of course, just the same in terms of gameplay) minus VATS and with better combat it may be the best game ever made.

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Off Topic / Re: R&B- What the forget?

« on: August 08, 2010, 07:42:27 PM »

How is that even a song? O.o

Honestly this might be the worst song I've ever heard.

http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/s/A+Milli/1MrZoA

Some gems from the lyrics:

"I'm a venereal disease like a menstrual bleed"
"What chyall really want it naw" What.
"This rap thang, this is my race Gon' take a lap man weezy babys no Now gon' take a nap man, it's nap time I'll holla back at you at snack time"

Speaking of hip-hop, remember when it sounded like this?

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Games / Re: Games I want to save for.

« on: August 08, 2010, 07:23:41 PM »

Does it have a deep storyline? Or is it just like "Do this" and then you go blow stuff up?

Honestly I haven't finished GTAIV but I've finished GTASA and that does have a pretty deep storyline. There are a fair amount of missions that are like "okay go and blow this up or kill this person or steal this car etc." but the storyline told through the cutscenes and stuff is good.